Police Pursue Violent Vigilante ‘Pedophile Hunters’ – 21 April 2015

Police in the northwest of England are trying to track and identify a group of ‘pedophile hunters’ who pose as young girls online, then beat up the men who agree to meet them.

The unidentified group are said to film the attacks, the most recent of which is alleged to have taken place on Saturday, when a man in Wigan was head-butted and had several teeth knocked out by a gang of men, who accused him of arranging to meet a 14-year-old.

A 25-year-old was later arrested on suspicion of grooming.

A 19-year-old man, who believed he was meeting a 14-year-old in Atherton, Manchester, was also attacked when he arrived at a pre-arranged rendezvous.